Political anthropology

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major reference

While the intellectual and methodological roots of
political anthropology can be traced to Montesquieu and Alexis de Tocqueville, who viewed politics and governance as cultural constructs, Elizabeth Colson dated the modern field of
political anthropology to 1940 and the publication of
African Political Systems (1940), edited by Meyer Fortes and Edward Evans-Pritchard....